John 14:15
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If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
I cling to Your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame.
So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them: He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land. And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. . . .
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.
He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts. I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word. I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse— a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed. . . .
and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded. Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.
The servant who had received the five talents came and presented five more. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master!’ The servant who had received the two talents also came and said, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents. See, I have gained two more.’ His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master!’
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.
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